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Tornado warnings sent the four grandmasters in the international match to the basement more than once at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Wednesday, but the unusual had already hit the boards. GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Ray Robson each won with black in the first of their two rapid games on the [...]

The two Saint Louis grandmasters prevailed in the first day of rapid chess in the international match Tuesday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, each notching a win with white and holding with the black pieces. GM Hikaru Nakamura showed a risky plan that would not work in longer time controls [...]

Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Ray Robson each won with white Sunday to take the lead going into the rapid portion of their international matches at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Nakamura’s win gives him a 3.5-2.5 lead over Ukrainian Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov. Robson leads Finegold 4-2. The match resumes with two [...]

The world did not end Saturday, even though Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura again played the King’s Indian Defense against GM Ruslan Ponomariov, and the fifth game in the international match ended in a draw. Their match is tied at 2.5 each. The game between GM Ben Finegold and GM Ray Robson went a epic 137 moves, [...]

Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura evened the score at 1.5 in his international match against GM Ruslan Ponomariov Thursday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Ben Finegold and Ray Robson drew their second straight game. Nakamura won but was the first to say it was not because of his opening play with the [...]

In both games, white played e4; in both games white refused to trade queens to remove black’s castling privilege; and both games ended in a draw. “I had a pleasant position—two bishops,” said Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov about his game against GM Hikaru Nakamura Wednesday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. “This [...]